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Baseline Ventures

Baseline Ventures is a seed-stage capital firm founded by Steve Anderson in late 2006. Bringing his diverse experience from eBay, Microsoft, Kleiner Perkins, Starbucks and Digital Equipment Corporation, Steve founded Baseline to in order to help entrepreneurs build and grow their ideas into companies.

Since its inception, Baseline is proud to have backed over 60 founding teams in promising software and web companies including Rupture (acquired by EA), Mixer Labs (acquired by Twitter), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), Versley (acquired by Cisco), Aardvark and DocVerse (both acquired by Google), Sendori (acquired by Ask.com), Parakey (acquired by Facebook), Haute Secure (acquired by Truste), Twitter and Trialpay.

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
TastemakerX 2/12Series A$1.8M5
Adara Media 1/12Unattributed$12.4M4
TaskRabbit 12/11Series B$17.8M8
Iron.io 12/11Seed$1.62M8
UserVoice 11/11Series B$1M10
Crashlytics 10/11Seed$1M9
GoInstant 9/11Seed$1.7M7
Read It Later 7/11Series A$2.5M4
Wordnik 7/11Series C$8M5
StackMob 5/11Series A$7.5M3
ObjectLabs 5/11Series A$3M5
TaskRabbit 5/11Series A$5M7
Rivet Games 4/11Series B4
Giftly 3/11Seed$2.8M6
Instagram 2/11Series A$7M5
Formspring 1/11Unattributed$11.5M2
Pantheon 9/10Seed$1.3M7
TaskRabbit 8/10Seed$850k4
BillFloat 7/10Series A$4.5M7
Versly 7/10Seed7
OwnLocal 6/10Seed$1M17
TRUSTe 6/10Series B$12M4
True Ultimate Standards Everywhere 5/10Series B$12.2M4
Heroku 5/10Series B$10M4
Xobni 4/10Series C$16.2M7
Formspring 3/10Series A$2.5M12
Instagram 3/10Seed$500k2
Vook 2/10Seed$2.5M5
WorkSimple 11/09Debt$540k2
runmyerrand 10/09Series A$1M3
TaskRabbit 8/09Seed$1M3
BookFresh 7/09Seed$500k4
CoTweet 7/09Series A$1.1M6
Yardbarker Network 6/09Unattributed$634k6
UserVoice 5/09Series A$800k6
Expensify 5/09Seed$1M3
Xobni 3/09Series B$3.2M8
OMGPOP 3/09Series B$5M3
Haute Secure 3/09Series A$1.6M2
Xobni 1/09Series B$7M7
Aardvark 10/08Series A$5.25M5
Sharethrough 8/08Seed$1M4
DocVerse 7/08Seed$1.3M3
OMGPOP 6/08Series A$1.5M4
Blekko 5/08Series B$3M7
Yardbarker Network 4/08Series B$6M6
TrialPay 2/08Series B$12.7M4
Wordnik 1/08Series A$1M1
Stax Networks 12/07Seed1
Sendori 11/07Series A$800k3
Blekko 9/07Series A$2M5
Rupture 7/07Angel$3M5
SnapLayout 5/07Series A$650k1
Weebly 5/07Angel$650k5
Fraudwall Technologies 3/07Series A$1.1M3
TrialPay 2/07Series A$3.1M7
Anchor Intelligence 1/07Series A$2M8
Haute Secure 1/07Seed$500k1
Cake Financial 1/06Seed8

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  7. TastemakerX, The App For Hipsters Who Totally Heard That Band First, Raises $1.8M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Adara Media Secures $12.4M in Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  9. TaskRabbit Gets $17.8M For “Aggressive” Expansion, Wants To Grow Internationally And Beyond (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Cloud Application Services Company Iron.io Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round From Baseline (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Uservoice Hears $1M (silicontap.com) [edit]
  12. Crashlytics, A Crash-Reporting Solution For Mobile Developers, Raises $1 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  13. GoInstant Launches With $1.7M For Browser-Sharing Technology (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  14. Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million, Wants To Become The Dropbox Of Content (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Google+’s Horowitz Talks About Joining Board of Wordnik, As Online Dictionary Site Garners $8M More in Funding (Video) (allthingsd.com) [edit]
  16. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  17. Cloud Database Provider MongoLab Raises $3 Million From Foundry, Baseline, And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  18. TaskRabbit Gets $5M From Shasta Ventures, First Round And Others To Help People Get Stuff Done (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  19. Rivet Games Raises Series B Financing for Next Gen Web, Social and Mobile Games (prweb.com) [edit]
  20. Giftly Now Lets You Give The Gift Of Discovery (And Some Money, Too) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Instagram Raises $7M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  22. Formspring Closes $11.5 Million Round, Launches ‘Respond’ Button (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  23. Backed With $1.3 Million, Pantheon Launches Drupal-Based Web Development Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. TaskRabbit gets $850K to cross errands off your to-do list (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  25. PayPal-Backed BillFloat Launches, Secures $4.5 Million Series A Round (Exclusive) (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  27. YComb’s Seeing Interactive Raises Seed Round From Baseline, Buchheit, Schachter, and Lerer Ventures (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  28. TRUSTe Receives $12 Million in Series B Funding (truste.com) [edit]
  29. Funds Invest in Privacy Start-Ups (online.wsj.com) [edit]
  30. Former Microsoft Execs Lead $10 Million Round In Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. Khosla And RRE Lead $16.2 Million Series C In Xobni (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  34. Vook Announces $2.5 Million in Seed Financing (marketwire.com) [edit]
  35. WorkSimple raises $540K for workflow, hiring, training services (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  36. Xconomy (xconomy.com) [edit]
  37. TaskRabbit gets $850K to cross errands off your to-do list (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  38. BOOKFRESH SECURES $500K IN ADDITIONAL SEED FUNDING (freshnews.com) [edit]
  39. View my * My Posts * Facebook * Twitter * Friendfeed * LinkedIn * Digg * CoTweet Now in Public Beta; Get the Same Twitter CRM Tools as Big Brands (mashable.com) [edit]
  40. Yardbarker scores $634K to connect pro athletes with fans (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  41. UserVoice raises $800K for customer feedback systems (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  42. Expensify raises $1M for online expense reporting (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  43. Email startup Xobni leaves beta, raises $3.2M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  44. SAI (businessinsider.com) [edit]
  45. Haute Secure Inc Obtains $1,600,000 Series A Funding Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
  46. Xobni Closes $7 Million B Round Led By Cisco (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  47. Mechanical Zoo Gets $6 Million To Build Aardvark Social Search Product (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  48. The Viral Video Guy Gets $1 Million In Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  49. More funding for document collaboration: DocVerse raises $1.3M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  50. Iminlikewithyou Gets VC Cash For New Game (gigaom.com) [edit]
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  52. Yardbarker Raises $6 Million Second Round For Sports Community And Ad Network (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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  61. FraudWall raises $1.01 million (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  62. TrialPay Backed By Investors of Skype, Google, and Akamai For Payment Platform (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
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  65. cakefinancial.com [edit]
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